Pauleo1214
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I believe it was the great Bob Ross who once said, "There are no mistakes, only happy accidents." This quote certainly describes my build. I am not a particular fan of doom metal but there is something about the tone and building the ultimate doom machine that stirs my loins. My favorite build so far uses GPCB boards so far and features a Ratt DLX with an Afterblaster boost running into a Sunn T.
Liking the sound of the Two Sticks of Derm Fuzz, I thought that if I made another into a combo build with a boost that it would be another solid doom machine. I heard good things about the Triangulum Boost so I bought one with another Two Sticks of Derm.
I populated both boards in an hour, threw them in an enclosure and fired them up. While the fuzz was working, I got a dirty, farty sound that was very pronounced when strings were strummed hard. I read that the likely culprit was insufficient voltage and I concluded I likely used a wrong value resistors somewhere on the board.
Given I used sockets for the BC550s, I decided to try other NPN transistors. Most alleviated the issue but did not provide any volume past unity gain. Then I threw in a BC517. The gain was back but so was a boomy, fart sound. Then I turned on the fuzz; a new pedal was born. I give you:
THE PHLEGM BRÛLÉE
I took another 1590BB enclosure and drilled it for a single footswitch to be shared by the two boards (credit to Danbieranowski for sharing a diagram on one of his build threads). This pedal brings nothing new to the fuzz game but combines a lot of elements that make it sound unique unto itself. There are elements of oscillation, bit crushing, octave up, and suboctave that mix together in an unholy union depending on the how the Ptui! (bias) knob on the fuzz is dialed.
Here is a brief demo using a single note phrase from Smashing Pumpkins' Rocket. The phrase is repeated four times.
1. Bypass signal
2. Ptui! control at 20% (mostly unusable noise)
3. Ptui! control at 50%
4. Ptui! control at 100%
Liking the sound of the Two Sticks of Derm Fuzz, I thought that if I made another into a combo build with a boost that it would be another solid doom machine. I heard good things about the Triangulum Boost so I bought one with another Two Sticks of Derm.
I populated both boards in an hour, threw them in an enclosure and fired them up. While the fuzz was working, I got a dirty, farty sound that was very pronounced when strings were strummed hard. I read that the likely culprit was insufficient voltage and I concluded I likely used a wrong value resistors somewhere on the board.
Given I used sockets for the BC550s, I decided to try other NPN transistors. Most alleviated the issue but did not provide any volume past unity gain. Then I threw in a BC517. The gain was back but so was a boomy, fart sound. Then I turned on the fuzz; a new pedal was born. I give you:
THE PHLEGM BRÛLÉE
I took another 1590BB enclosure and drilled it for a single footswitch to be shared by the two boards (credit to Danbieranowski for sharing a diagram on one of his build threads). This pedal brings nothing new to the fuzz game but combines a lot of elements that make it sound unique unto itself. There are elements of oscillation, bit crushing, octave up, and suboctave that mix together in an unholy union depending on the how the Ptui! (bias) knob on the fuzz is dialed.
Here is a brief demo using a single note phrase from Smashing Pumpkins' Rocket. The phrase is repeated four times.
1. Bypass signal
2. Ptui! control at 20% (mostly unusable noise)
3. Ptui! control at 50%
4. Ptui! control at 100%
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